eliminating GPL apps on FreeBSD

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sat Dec 18 13:13:43 PST 2004


On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 12:58:24PM -0800, Timothy Beyer wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 04:02:37PM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote:
> > At 2:38 AM -0800 2004-12-18, Timothy Beyer wrote:
> > 
> > > 2) significantly improve Tendra C compiler (or any equivalent,
> > > non-proprietary, non-copylefted compiler) for base system.  Should
> > > produce optimized code and should be fairly platform independent.
> > 
> > 	Does that work for UltraSPARC, Alpha, AMD64, and all the other 
> > platforms we need to support?
> 
> Probably not, (I'm not sure) but I don't see any reason why it
> shouldn't support multiple architectures if it doesn't already...

Great, let us know when it's ready!

Kris
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